The documentary about King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King, King Crimson At 50 will make its Los Angeles debut this week. The internationally acclaimed music documentary that explores the conflicted and transcendent world of Robert Fripp’s more than 50-year-old musical project King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King will be screening for two nights at Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills @ 8:00pm on the 17th and 18th February 2023. The director of the film, Toby Amies (The Man Whose Mind Exploded) will be present to introduce the documentary and take questions after the screening on both nights. Following the first showing on the 17th there will be a Q&A session hosted by Emmy winner and 2x Oscar-nominee, director Lucy Walker (Blindsight, Bring Your Own Brigade, How to Change Your Mind). On the 18th Toby will be interviewed by underground music superstar and author Ian F. Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, Escape-Ism, Against the Written Word).
Check out our interview with Toby about the film:
Toby Amies – Biography
His first feature documentary The Man Whose Mind Exploded had a national cinema run in the UK and was acquired by Netflix in the US and Film 4 in the UK. Before becoming a full-time film-maker he worked for MTV as a VJ and producer as well as writing and fronting documentaries and shows for the BBC, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and SkyArts. Thanks to his work as a portrait photographer Toby has developed a first person style of documentary that records his relationships with his subjects, allowing the audience to share in an unusual degree of intimacy with the people in front of the camera.
The film explores the “acute suffering” and transcendent glory experienced by current and former members of King Crimson, allowing the audience an intimate and sometimes uncomfortable insight into the musicians’ experience as they confront life and death head on in the world’s most demanding rock band. ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ is not only a film about a group that has been creatively active for 50 years it’s also a film about music, why it matters, and the painful sacrifices artists have to make in order to create work that changes people’s lives, but with jokes.
In keeping with King Crimson’s independent, ethical, and iconoclastic approach to the music and entertainment business they have sidestepped traditional broadcast platforms in order to bring the film direct to their fans without further delay or compromise.
“A grown-up film about working players living, dying, laughing, playing…” Robert Fripp.
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King Crimson
KING CRIMSON was formed in the Fulham Palace Café on January 13th 1969. The album In The Court of The Crimson King was released on 10th October 1969.
Over the following 53 years, the band has constantly re-invented itself. Having reformed in 2014 the most recent line-up featured Robert Fripp (guitar), Mel Collins (saxophones & flute), Tony Levin (bass, stick and backing vocals), Jakko Jakszyk (guitar & vocals), Bill Rieflin (keyboards), and drummers Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto and Jeremy Stacey – who doubles on keyboards.
About DGM
Discipline Global Mobile is a music company founded by Robert Fripp and David Singleton with the aim of being a model of ethical business in an industry ‘founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fuelled by greed’. The company aims to operate in the market-place, while being free of the values of the market-place. Contrary to common industry practice, DGM’s artists retain the copyrights and the moral rights to their works. The oft-quoted copyright notice on DGM products reads:
“Discipline accepts no reason for artists to assign the copyright interests in their work to either record company or management by virtue of a ‘common practice’ which was always questionable, often improper, and is now indefensible.”
Biography – Toby Amies
Toby Amies is interested in exploring extraordinary points of view.
His first feature documentary The Man Whose Mind Exploded had a national cinema run in the UK and was acquired by Netflix in the US and Film 4 in the UK.
Before becoming a full time film-maker he worked for MTV as a VJ and producer as well as writing and fronting documentaries and shows for the BBC, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and SkyArts.
Thanks to his work as a portrait photographer Toby has developed a first person style of documentary that records his relationships with his subjects, allowing the audience to share in an unusual degree of intimacy with the people in front of the camera.